Unpunished
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Unpunished |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German with English subtitles |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 56 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roland Kahler |
| production | Chrissie Thiergärtner |
| music | Estrongo Nachama |
| cut | Roland Kahler |
| occupation | |
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Unpunished is a film by Roland Kahler about the sufferings of the Jewish children in the Holocaust . The premiere was on November 14, 1996 in the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Biebrich Castle .
content
Unpunished shows the fate of Jewish children in the Holocaust and describes in 41 episodes from original testimony (all from war crimes trials ) the murder and suffering of Jewish children in the period from 1939–1945: starting with 20 children aged 5– 12 years on Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg, who were hung on hooks on the night of April 21, 1945.
Other episodes report, among other things, about February 1943 in Auschwitz, where between 30 and 40 Jewish children were murdered in a single afternoon with phenol injections into the heart.
At the end there is the Auschwitz appeal by former surviving Auschwitz children to the world public with the statement: "Never again war, never again Auschwitz!"
material
The film consists entirely of historical footage that was purchased by Chronos Film . The film was created on 35 mm cinema format .
Recorded statements from war crimes trials were used, selected under the advice of Ronny Loewy :
- Auschwitz Trial 1964
- Treblinka Trial in 1965
- Sachsenhausen Trial 1958
- Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals and the follow-up trials in Nuremberg
- Eichmann trial 1961
- Files of the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office
backgrounds
- The clay work took several weeks and turned out to be very tedious. The reason for this was that the feelings of the individual speakers were so shaken by the content of the texts that, which often happened, they had to stop and stop in the middle of the text and leave the recording studio in tears.
- Kahler's motivation for making such a film is the experience of his own persecuted family. The grandfather was arrested by the Gestapo in 1936 and sent to a concentration camp. The grandmother was forcibly sterilized by the Nazis in October 1938 . Kahler's father, uncles and aunts were picked up as children and sent to forced education camps.
- Steven Spielberg Film Archives in Jerusalem has not been atoned for in The Hebrew University under system number 000278840 (Call no. VT 00479).
- Estrongo Nachama , the former head cantor of the Jewish community in Berlin, provided the music and poems for Unatuned.
- Other performances included on March 19, 1997 in the Kitzingen synagogue , on April 5, 1998 in the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial and on May 31, 2011 in the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation's film theater in Wiesbaden.
reception
"These texts were read out very emphatically by Erika Hesse, Friederike Scholz, Wilhelm Poli, Jutta Schmidt and Christine Oschmann."
“Children in the Holocaust: Unvarnished Truth. Kahler's concept of dealing with the German past certainly requires discussion. "
"Unvarnished truths about crimes against children in the Holocaust."
"The response to" Unatunited "will probably be divided. And yet every argument, no matter how loud, is a hundred times better than crippling forgetting. "
"The film" Unatunited "in the Old Synagogue arouses deep dismay among the visitors ... That the film got under their skin was proven by the calm after the screening: there was a concerned silence in the group."
“... the film becomes a harrowing document of contemporary history. Original films by concentration camp guards who filmed their own actions do not let go of the viewer even after the film and ensure a need for discussion ... "
swell
- ↑ Spielberg Archive - List of Records - Ungesuehnt (motion picture) - System Number 000278840. Retrieved on October 28, 2015 (search in the Spielberg Archive).